Courtesy: Marriott Marquis Washington, DC
Are you a Marriott Rewards member? This will probably make you happy.
Research firm IdeaWorks and travel technology firm Switchfly are releasing the results of a survey that finds Marriott offers the best customer rewards program out of the top four hotel groups (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, and Starwood).
It finds that Marriott offers a 54 percent higher payback on average than a stay at a lowest-rated Starwood hotel.
The survey compared 1,440 guests in which the number of points required for a hotel stay was compared to the room rate in dollars, Fox News reports. For every $100 spent by Marriott Rewards members, they earned the equivalent of $9.40 towards a future Marriott stay.
Hilton rewards users could earn back 8.9 percent per stay; IHG program members could potentially get back 8.6 percent; and Starwood users get 6.1 percent back.
